Carol Rogers

Deputy Director and Chief Information Officer of the Indiana Business Research Center

"About 25.5 percent of our population in Marion County is African-American. It’s a community that is predominantly middle class if you look at the income structure of that community. And it’s a long-standing community. The Hispanic growth tends to be focused on, I think, because of the acceleration of that population. We don’t see that kind of acceleration now with the African-American community and we tend not to think about the Asian or Pacific populations. But we’re also seeing quite a bit of acceleration there. So what we see in Marion County is that we see diversity, if you want to call it that, we’re beginning to see more people who are unlike ourselves. And it’s providing the county with some attraction opportunities as well because of that diversity."